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AirPR Interview Series: Emmy Award Winning Journalist & PR Pro Mika Stambaugh

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“Nail the elevator pitch.”. We focus on working with non-profits, small businesses, women CEOs and business owners. One of the ways I have seen PR evolve is pitching used to be only to the assignment desk and now I mainly pitch directly to the reporter. Mika: Nail the elevator pitch. TMI does PR.

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

1) February 18, 2014: Enter GTCR . Sources: Business Wire , PRWeek , RMP Analysis , Chicago Tribune , Mergr.com ). 2) April 7, 2014: Vocus. Sources: GlobeNewsWire , Business Wire , TechCrunch , Adweek , PRWeb ). 2a) June 2, 2014: Vocus + Cision. 2b) September 8, 2014: Outmarket. 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.

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28 Observations from 28 Months as a Solo PR

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In 2014, a whopping 581,000 businesses started up in the UK. According to Bloomberg , a staggering 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months. In some small businesses, the owner also produces the product or service, markets it and delivers it to clients.”.

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Seeing Around Corners: 30 Marketing and PR Predictions for 2021

Sword and the Script

Marketing be nimble. Rather than having year-long editorial calendars for opportunities and content, marketing and communications professionals are will have to work in a much more agile, phased approach: creating evergreen content per quarter and making room for ‘rapid-response’ type communications based on what 2021 might throw at us.

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